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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Newts vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

opennms.github.io/newts

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Spotify

OpenNMS Group

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1984

2016

2014

2003

Current release

v20, April 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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